- one second sleep required after wiping partition table on some hardware

[bootmanager.git] / source / steps / InstallPartitionDisks.py

diff --git a/source/steps/InstallPartitionDisks.py b/source/steps/InstallPartitionDisks.py
index 02245c2..9f7d4c7 100644 (file)
--- a/source/steps/InstallPartitionDisks.py
+++ b/source/steps/InstallPartitionDisks.py
@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@ def Run( vars, log ):
     TEMP_PATH                somewhere to store what we need to run
     ROOT_SIZE                the size of the root logical volume
     SWAP_SIZE                the size of the swap partition
-    ALPINA_SERVER_DIR        directory on the boot servers containing alpina
-                             scripts and support files
     BOOT_CD_VERSION          A tuple of the current bootcd version
     
     Sets the following variables:
@@ -94,10 +92,6 @@ def Run( vars, log ):
         if SWAP_SIZE == "" or SWAP_SIZE == 0:
             raise ValueError, "SWAP_SIZE invalid"
 
-        ALPINA_SERVER_DIR= vars["ALPINA_SERVER_DIR"]
-        if ALPINA_SERVER_DIR == None:
-            raise ValueError, "ALPINA_SERVER_DIR"
-
         BOOT_CD_VERSION= vars["BOOT_CD_VERSION"]
         if BOOT_CD_VERSION == "":
             raise ValueError, "BOOT_CD_VERSION"
@@ -310,6 +304,9 @@ def create_lvm_physical_volume( part_path, vars, log ):
     try:
         # again, wipe any old data, this time on the partition
         utils.sysexec( "dd if=/dev/zero of=%s bs=512 count=1" % part_path, log )
+        ### patch Thierry Parmentelat, required on some hardware
+        import time
+        time.sleep(1)
         utils.sysexec( "pvcreate -fy %s" % part_path, log )
     except BootManagerException, e:
         log.write( "create_lvm_physical_volume failed.\n" )